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I don't know, it seems unlikely that they drifted all the way into Iranian waters, and while one Iranian news source is saying our soldiers were 'rescued,' another Iranian news source, Fars News Agency (both according to CNN), is saying they were 'arrested.'

CNN is also saying that they won't be released until daylight in Iran, which means they will be in Iranian custody during the State of the Union Tonight.

The other thing I would say is that the administration has reason to downplay the issue considering the President is supposed to tout the Iranian deal in his speech tonight. There is incentive not to muck that up too much right now.

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yeah..kind of reminds me of the old Letterman bit "is this anything?" You kind of look at the report and it might be something, but then they play it down and use words like "rescue" and say the Americans will be "released shortly"...which makes you think.."released" from what? Then you hear that they are "taken into custody". Custody?

John Kerry Expresses ‘Gratitude’ to Iran After U.S. Sailors Are Released — Then Iranian State TV Publishes These Images

†"He has a swaggering retro machismo that will give hives to the Steinem cabal" -Camille Paglia on Donald Trump

"Make way for the bad guy"- Tony Montana

'This hamburger don't need no helper"- David Lee Roth

"I wish Bon Jovi would've given me a call before he recorded all of his hits, because the lyrics would've been smarter, the melodies would've been much more smashing, and they would've sold a lot fewer records." -David Lee Roth

"My beef is people thinking Bon Jovi is good cuz they sold lots of records to housewives." -tango

"But being number one doesnít really mean jack fuck all. We sold twice as many records as other records that year (1984) that landed in the Number One position." ~Eddie Van Halen

The couple interviews I saw of them being held in that hotel looking room, they were talking like someone was pointing an AK47 at them. I understand being nervous, but they seemed pretty damn scared to me. Certainly not guys that were just waiting to get back to their ship

Our troops ended up in Iranian waters and left Iran alive and promptly...on that front it is a win for diplomacy.....and the dropping of sanctions that returns a boatload of cash to Iran..something like 100 Billion in frozen assets ...at least Iran will take a big hit in that oil prices are far from where they were when sanctions were first imposed

but what about Jason Rezaian, Pastor Saeed Abedini, former US marine Amir Hekmati, and Robert Levinson ( OK he was a CIA operative but he's been held for what? 10 years now?)

where's the big diplomatic push to release them?

now that sanctions are lifted, we missed a huge opportunity to get these people back

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